Abstract:
A device and method for measurement of ultra fast waveforms with increased accuracy and storage capability. A superconducting loop contains at least one Josephson tunneling device and is located adjacent to the signal line along which travels the waveform to be measured. Magnetic flux from the waveform intercepts the loop in an amount which is dependent upon the amplitude of the waveform at any instance in time. Control means is provided to switch the Josephson tunneling device to its zero voltage state at the time the waveform is to be sampled. This traps the magnetic flux due to the waveform and the flux will remain stored in a loop as long as the Josephson tunneling device remains in its zero voltage state. A test Josephson tunnel device located adjacent to the superconducting loop can be used to detect the amount of flux trapped in the loop. Non-repetitive pulses can be sampled and the device has a possible resolution of 5 picoseconds. The bandwidth of the non-repetitive signal pulses can be 100 gHz.
Abstract:
A high gain Josephson junction device having an asymmetric curve of maximum Josephson current (Im) versus applied field (H). The magnetic field is proportional to the Josephson current (IJ) through the junction at each instant of time, and the constant of proportionality remains the same for each curve of Im versus H. Due to this asymmetry, a small change in magnetic control field Hc will cause a large change in maximum Josephson current, IJ. Preferred embodiments return the Josephson current in a path over the junction to produce a magnetic field penetrating the junction which is always proportional to the Josephson current.
Abstract:
A superconducting Josephson junction tunnel device having in particular lead alloy electrodes (Pb-In and Pb-In-Sn) and a very precisely defined and dense tunnel barrier comprising an oxide of the lead alloy electrode. Such devices can be thermally cycled between liquid helium temperatures and room temperatures, and provide large tunnelling currents.
Abstract:
A superconducting Josephson junction tunnel device having in particular lead alloy electrodes (Pb-In and Pb-In-Sn) and a very precisely defined and dense tunnel barrier comprising an oxide of the lead alloy electrode. Such devices can be thermally cycled between liquid helium temperatures and room temperatures, and provide large tunnelling currents.
Abstract:
1,073,349. Digital calculators. INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION. Oct. 22, 1964 [Nov. 8, 1963], No. 4304O/64. Heading G4A. [Also in Divisions G1 and H4] A data transmission system in which received signals are subject to distortion comprises an arrangement for sampling a received signal on a time sequential basis, calculating arrangements for multiplying individual samples with separate discrete values of an analysis function and a summing arrangement for combining these products to obtain an output representing the transmitted signal from which the received signal was obtained. The invention applies particularly to the transmission of digital data over telegraph lines, where considerable distortion of the digital signals may occur. Digital data #(t) (Fig. 1) after transmission over the line L appears as the distorted waveform h(t). This is fed to a delay line #, and the signals appearing from each delay element 8 of the line are multiplied in the units 1-8 with an analysis function s(t) which is predetermined to relate to a function which can be reliably interpreted and which is generated in the unit 9. The outputs from the multiplying units are added together in a'unit 10, whose output is the cross correlation function # representing the delay times. This function reliably indicates the signal input #(t) to the system. A suitable analysis function s(t) is derived as follows. If g(t) is a function determined in advance which defines the form of pulse required at the correlator output each time that #(t) (representing a single pulse) is sent on the line,theng(t)=s(t).h(t), or in terms of frequency S(W) = G(W)/HW. The Fourier components in the spectrum H(W) are obtained by developing samples from h(t) by means of tappings on a delay line (#, Fig. 3) and connecting the tappings through amplifiers (A) to grouped resistors (R m ) connected to current adders (R s ). From these adders Fourier coefficients are produced of the function H(W). The Fourier coefficients of a required function G(W) are stored in a legister (11), and the quotient G(W) is determined in a unit (12). The Fourier coefficients derived therefrom and representing S(W) are passed to a synthesizer (13), which operates in the reverse manner to the analyser described above to deliver the required function s(t) in sample form. This is recorded in a store (14). The Fourier analysis and synthesis system is then disconnected, the store is connected to the amplifiers (A) via switches (S 1 -S n ) and the delay line can then be used in producing the correlation output for any signal #(t) applied to the system.